The car repo business is booming as Americans fall behind on their increasingly expensive car payments.

Tight household budgets are pushing drivers toward financial strain.

Ford has some interesting ideas on what self-driving cars might soon be able to do. Besides freeing us from the tedium of commuting, the company envisions cars that could repossess themselves.

Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car payments. And once last year’s numbers are tallied, an estimated 3 ...

It was a mistaken repossession, the repo-man towed a truck out right out of a Brooklyn driveway in the dark of night.

ATLANTA — More Americans are falling behind on their car payments as 2025 comes to a close, with auto repossessions nearing levels not seen since the Great Recession. WSB consumer expert Clark Howard ...

After his hand was run over while he attempted to repossess a car, tow truck operator Ted Baldwin gave up on repossessions. “The owner of the vehicle came out while I was behind the tire hooking it up ...

Picture this: You’ve fallen on hard times, and you haven’t been able to make your last few car payments. When you step out of your home to head toward your car, you don’t see the fabled “repo man”; ...